The Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency took the next highest allocation of N9.1bn, with N7.7bn going on salaries.

The main ministry was allocated a total of N2.8bn and will spend N1.8bn on capital projects and pay N730m on salaries.

A summary of the proposals submitted by the minister showed that out of the total 2017 budget of N69.5bn, the sum of N61.2bn was earmarked for salaries in the ministry and its agencies, while the total provision for capital projects was N7bn.

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can any 1 give the political stability in nigeria for the past three years

Bolade

I agree with you that the two policies were not well conceptualized and would not stand the test of time.Parents have a fundamental responsibility to cloth their children from birth to age 18 . Government need not usurp the responsibility because uniform cost is not a significant cost of raising children at any divide of the income spectrum
Its provision by government will not in anyway enhance school enrollment or quality of education .That expense would have been better used to fund other critical needs of education like teacher welfare and teaching materials.
On mergers and demolition of existing school structures that could have been renovated and modernized to save cost,the motive for such a wasteful exercise is difficult to rationalize .It looks like a template wrongly imported from Lagos without considering the peculiarity of the state and its weak revenue generating capacity.Land is limited and costly in Lagos while children are used to commuting in buses,okada and private cars The opposite rule in all cases in Osun state .How do the government provide for children who have to trek long distance to their schools when the buses being used now are due for replacement say in 8 to 10 years when they have passed their useful life and the present leaders are long gone.The state government have enormous cash to fund these projects from the proceeds of the bond issues but the real question is where will the revenue to service the repayment come from as schools and most of the infrastructure that benefited from the debt issues are non revenue yielding .The question is pertinent in the event of revenue shock from the federation account. It should be noted by the government that people and in some cases children whose parent’s legacies are being demolished can never be happy with the government .The government must consider their plight .Rather than demolish standing existing structures and merge schools a more pragmatic approach would have been to build the model schools in new areas and open such location to development as done in the modern world.The legacy schools can be refurbished and remodeled to serve its purpose

segzy

Why are u reason like this. School build during Awolowo should be renovated. Dont you want change. Those school cannot be renovated they are totally structurally unstable. Let us challenge the status squo and embrace new idea. That is wat they call development.

Ayodele dina

Alhaji Aregbesola, you should know by now that we have religious explosion in Nigeria , therefore you do not need to copy blindly the general uniform we were using during free primary education in the old Western Region. Please cast your mind back to the time of Chief Awolowo and do away with your fanatism. God sent us here for a purpose to mankind one should not derail. In addition there should be no competition among the religious organizations. God bless Nigeria.

Alhaji Akin Irewole

I wonder how myopic and shallow minded pple can sometimes be! What is the linkage between student wearing the same uniform andreligion ? look let me tell you, if student are provided free uniform by the govt and some mushroom schools are merged together to be becoming mega schools for efficient administration, how does religion comes in here, what bussiness does any religious organization has with any public school in Osun, who owns this schools? Who funds them for the past years? Why did the so call nosy religious body just wake up from their slumber to now realize they have a stake in schools taken over from them by Gov (not even Aregbesolas gov) many years back?can’t any reasonable right thinking person see that all this propaganda are coming from enemies of progress in Osun state who don’t have state fund to squander freely on your girls in micom golf in Ada again, I challenge anyone to convince us how merger of some low standard schools with others to provide good administration is religious or how wearing thesame uniform by students negatively impaired learning in school! Osun of which I’m one, we are our own enemy

YemiO

The Governor that took over the schools did not nullify the influence of the faith bodies. Aregbesola is completing that cycle. So evidently, the government has taken land and infrastructure it did not own and thrown out the original owners, first by going into partnership with them and now, under Aregbesola, cutting them off completely! Personally, I wouldn’t mind having Muslim students taught the ways and virtues of Islam that would make them good citizens, since faith-committed people tend to be more responsible but presently “Aregbesola ti’n gbe Omo Oba fun Osun”.

Joy Favour

First of all the missionary schools were taken over through decree during military era which you and me belief that some of their actions were not in order that was why we yearned for democratic dispensation instead of military mis-rule. Having that at the back of our minds, and where the problem is if you don’t know or you may pretend not to know is that when you introduce uniform, all the boys have to dress alike and all the girls have to dress alike otherwise it is no longer uniform. By the time you are now saying one religion should add ezra material(s) aside their uniform it is no longer uniform and hence others with different faith backgrounds should be allowed to put on their religious attires otherwise you are being bias probably because of your religious inclination.

Alhaji Akin Irewole

Joy favour whatever you do or say always cross check your fact and figure before you make it public, otherwise you will be deceiving or misleading the pple, pls tell us where the gov or any of his official says that Muslim student should where hijab or Christian should wear collar to school! Pls quote him specifically or name ur source on information so that we can all verify and be sure he actually said so if not pls stop this lies and cheap propaganders and if you can’t I will post a recent publication where the Gov said and it is on record that he never authorized the use of hijab or any religious regalia in any school! What more do u need?

Joy Favour

The Gov. might say he did not authorize the use of hijab or any religious regalia in any school, the question for you is that are the students wearing them or not? There is nothing like deceiving or misleading the public, who doesn’t know is right from left, the masses are aware of the truth.

Joy Favour

There is nothing like deceiving or misleading the people, because the masses especially in this part of the world are better informed and people can really differentiate their left from their right. The governor may say that he did not authorize the use of hijab or any religious regalia in any school, the question I am asking you is that are the students wearing them or not?

If any parent is so concerned about religion of his/her wards more than their education they should feel free to withdraw them from Goverment school and enroll them in private religious schools where they can go and concentrate on wearing hijab or collar more than their academics rather than causing unnecessary friction in the polity, must their wards go to iwo baptist college or iwo Muslim college which are govt school? I think the only Mistake this Gov made was to still maintain the names of those schools they should have changed those names to urban day secondary schools and any parent not pleasesd with that should go and withdraw their wards enrol them in a private Muslim or Christian owned schools! Pls don’t forget that no religious body owns any public school in Osun state any more! So why exercising control over what you no longer owe or fund ? Isn’t that ridiculous ?

YemiO

That was why mission schools were created in the first place. If long lasting solutions are not found what says that such private schools will not be taken over by government one day? What says that Universities created by faith oriented bodies will not be taken over? Those schools were originally privately owned, their alumni, who continue to contribute to the development of the schools do so on the basis of faith.

Braun

That name change has always been the plan. To whittle down their influence.

Joy Favour

Alhaji, are you now saying if government did not merge the schools together or change their uniform, the schools cannot be funded by the government? I don’t think those policies would make students from Osun State to be super students or in any way better of their counterparts from other states especially from South West states.

Alhaji Akin Irewole

No joy I’m not saying that I’m only saying that on the contrary and on a more objective analysis, the name merger and uniform didn’t prevent quantitative education from taking place in those school, rather the merger if allowed to work will improve the standard of education in those schools lets check out the result of wasc this year and check the primary pupil enrollment in Nigeria on the web, see where Osun state is now compare to before Ogbeni regime,pls post your comment cheers

Soja

I also have my reservations about the same uniform type, but that does not remove the fact that the school mergers is an excellent idea and the same uniform does not remove or reduces the standard education that is guaranteed under this arrangement. And yeah, the name changer would have been a good idea but I’m sure its because of what people will say that he wants to erase the legacies put in place by the missionaries totally that’s why he is changing the names hence; the reason for retaining the old names.

segzy

How many of you have children or ward in this public school , instead of encouraging this children to consentrate on their education you busy destracts them with hijab or merger. Public scholls fail more in waec, neco or gce. Is it as aresult of wearing or no hijab. Failure or success has no 4egard for religion let put hand together and help this children to achieve success. Pls leave the poor out of sentiment.

Femi Solola

Alhaji, the issue is hijab in public schools. That is the problem not merger of schools.

dolani

Pls leave alhaji alone he is arguing blindly. Muslims who decided to wear hijab should go to muslim school. Is there no muslim student during our own time? All of us attended thesame school and alhaji irewole must have attended missionary school then if you are above 40years. That is how they will cancel morning devotion in public school. I implore Gov Aregbesola to change his decision and let whoever is interested in Christian or Muslim school to apply

Soja

I don’t think Alhaji is arguing blindly. If you can leave religious sentiments apart and just look at it from a neutral point of view. The questions I want to ask and if you can provide unbiased answers to will make you see what I’m talking about.
1. The schools we are talking about, are they public or private schools?
2. Who is paying the teachers and funding those schools?

If the schools are public schools and being fully funded by the government, if the govt decides to withdraw its teachers from there immediately and post students from there to other schools what would happen??
The baptist assembly could have as well get another location, build their own school, name it Baptist High school and disallow hijab there, then they will be fully justifies.

Everybody all over the world knows that some muslim females use hijab while some don’t. Some christian women believe in using head ties like turban to tie their hair tightly. If they are doing that in a public schools being funded by taxpayers (muslims and christians alike), then nobody should mix politics with religion by saying otherwise. We have many good christian schools around that we see muslims going there; its not only that they dare not wear hijab, also they must attend chapel every morning and church sunday service every week.

So, Baptist should start a private school like that and hands off public property if they are so sincere about protecting the legacy of Baptist High School

Joy Favour

I agree with you that if he can reverse those policies there is still room for people to reconsider their stand otherwise there is an adage that says ” A dog that will get lost will never listen to the whistle of an hunter”. I think our politicians at the helms of affairs should endeavour to bury their ego by having listening ears to the masses.

Femi Solola

Alhaji Irewole, the issue is not students wearing the same uniform and religion, the issue is muslim students wearing hijab in government owned schools. A good government must give direction and order so as not to have anarchy. Aregbesola should instruct that no student must wear any religious apparel to goverment owned school. This is not a rocket science. Government owned schools are not owned by christians, muslims or traditionalists, therefore, no trace of any religion must be seen on the students while in school uniform in the school. Aregbesola is either pretending or afraid, he knows the right thing to do. Aregbesola has done very well in many sectors, but on the issue of hijab wearing students in government owned schools, he failed woefully.

Alhaji Akin Irewole

Femi I agree with you to some extent ,your explanations are insightful and also objective ,I beg to disagree on the issue of hijab, I made some point clear in my explanation if only you read carefully the thread of my message
1i said the Gov said it publicly and in prints that he never at any time authorized the use of hijab in any school, nobody has prove me otherwise on that
2 so if some student now decided out of their own volition ,in connivance with some disgruntled politician or out of unnessasary fanatism to wear those religious aparel to school how does that become the Govs problem?

Is he the principal of those schools? Those schools don’t they have dress code before this administration? Were they dressing like that when they were on different uniform? Did this gov sow hijab with the free uniform given to them? If not why did the sudden use of hijab suddenly become an issue? And why did the principal of those schools not sanction those students when he noticed something different? But everything must be done by the Gov who may probably be out of the country when some failed politician went and sow hijab for some student ,sow cassock dress for Christian and purchased traditional religious regalia for some student and ask them to wear it to the assembly in iwo to

Alhaji Akin Irewole

Continuation
In iwo to cause mayhem or is it the gov that organized that too?, look if u look clearly and deeply u will see that the issue of hijab was a carefully orchestrated plan by the enemies of this gov to destabilize it, the day Aregbesola open his mouth publicly and in prints to say public school should wear hijab I will stop supporting him but why try to pin something on somebody neck when you don’t have any evidence to support such it’s simply nuisating !i don’t support hijab, my wive and kids can never wear it cos they are not Arabs they are Yorubas and so what is hijab? But don’t call a dog bad name in order to hang it let’s strive to say the truth always what we don’t know or sure of its better to say I don’t know
And femi if he gives order to schools not to wear hijab today, the Muslims will rise up all arms against him, if he says anything against the Christians they are up in arms, the 2 of them will gang up to call him idol worshiper,so what the student wear to school should ordinarily not be the bussiness of the gov, the school authority should be able to handle that!

tonireal

Aregbe is fantastic and I think everybody you meet in Osun says so, even the opposition politicians off record.